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Weirdly’s World: Get On With It!

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on February 2, 2015 Respond

Get on With It by Dave Weirdly

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Originally when I came up with this ASTRO MONK story I wanted it to be a story of many stories. I wanted the stories to intertwine into one. I thought this would Illustrate my point that good and bad can be a point of view.

This page is transitional. It adds another view into the ASTRO MONK saga. The A.C.K. BOT zooms through the cosmos and some sort of GLOP starts bubbling around then the AWAKENER stumbles upon a planet of things to awaken.

I love this page but as a transition goes I think the change is a bit sudden. Particulary for the AWAKENER. I think The AWAKENER could have stood more drifting and contemplation in space.

The IMPATIENT GUY

I might have been impatient to move the story along faster. I was being the guy that twirls his fingers and says ” Come on get on with the story will Yah!” So my impatient guy won out and this is what I have . I think you still get it. I feel like it could have used another scene there. But I needed to move on and thats how these things go.


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Weirdly’s World: the Un-Relationship

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 26, 2015 Respond

The Un-Relationship by Dave Weirdly

wwIn this weeks ASTRO MONK page we have the AWAKENER utterly despondent over the lost friendship of the robot it has awakened.

The AWAKENER has lost possibilities. Like being saved from loneliness and the hope of a new freind. I think sometimes when we lose a new friend especially one we haven’t built much history with there is sometimes a kind of fiction that occurs around that person. Our minds build stories quickly when in need or want . The AWAKENER is very
much in this place now. Not really missing the physical friend but missing the idea of having a friend. Also creeping feelings of loneliness and eventual insanity through isolation after being exiled into deep space doesn’t help ethier.

Relationship on the Horizon

But soon very soon the next page really new possibilities will make their way to the AWAKENER.

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Weirdly’s World: Like Unlike

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 19, 2015 Respond

LIKE UNLIKE by Dave Weirdly

It’s funny how drawings change for you. Sometimes you just love a drawing sometimes you see that same drawing and you don’t like it. I put away stuff I don’t like. Later I come back and hope that my opinion changes.

TIME + DISTANCE = CLARITY

Astro MonkI’m not sure why this is but time and distance changes how you see things. A lot of the times I feel like I fight myself to pull out what I see in my minds eye and put it on paper. Whats in you minds eye is always better than what you can muster in reality. A little bit ago I tweeted an image were my minds eye and physical reality were on the same page. But that just doesn’t happen a lot. If I’m uncertain about a pages quality I put it away to relase the baggage of that struggle between physical Dave and mental Dave.

I’ve come back a lot of times very happy to find what I did works and I was being overly critical. When you put away your work and move on with your life it let’s you free up expectations. Other life concerns seep in and with that your perceptions shift. It’s odd but it’s like your suddenly renewed. But still there are times when you come back and what you did still STINKS! But that will lead to something better anyway. You just have more work to do.

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Weirdly’s World: Je Suis Charlie

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 13, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Je Suis Charlie In my last blog I’ve talked about perceotions of villainy and here it comes screaming into our lives with last weeks Charlie Hebdo killings of cartoonist and those that help make the magazine. The killers I imagine thought that they have done nothing wrong. To them they have committed righteous GOD anointed acts. Yelling ALLAHU AKBAR {Which means GOD is great.} while they killed. I would gather from that they believed GOD was smiling
down on them as they murdered their unsuspecting victims.

The ZEALOTS

Could these ZEALOTS have changed had they not been killed? Could they somehow have been brought to a place where they could have seen what they did in another light? Did the millions of people protesting their actions have any effect on them? Could they see that thier actions did nothing to silence but only elevated those they wanted to erase?

Somewhere and to other people these men are heroes and martyrs. This is where we stand for now vastly separated by our perceptions of villainy and righteousness. Wondering what can possibly be done.
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Weirdly’s World: Follow Your Head

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 5, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

HeadIn my last blog article I touched on the idea of how many places your mind goes when you build a story. Last weeks page had the themes of perceptions of villiany and the transformation of those that do want to change their ways.

This weeks page deals with thoughts of loneliness and being distracted by loneliness so much so that you almost miss opportunities that arise. While your making all this stuff up your thoughts, depending on your mood, will really engage with these ideas. These ideas cause me to stop and say, “Yeah right, this is an entertaiment a funny book,” but I really do know that it/they mean more to me.

The Risk

ASTRO MONK was conceived to be more on the absurd side of things. But it is actually about more than pure entertainment or absurdity. I am speaking to the above ideas and more. Whether or not that will be felt by anybody but me will be the test of the story when it’s done. It’s the risk you take when you star something like this. So it could be something good for everyone or a learning lesson for me. Either way it’s a good thing to do if you are driven to do it.

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Weirdly’s World: Reflection

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 24, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

ReflectionThe AWAKENER is in full-blown exile now, drifting away in space without a future. This page for some reason seems to affect people. I’m not sure why. It also affected me after I finished it. It was a stand out page.

Was it the composition, dialog or just the way I drew it? I have gotten responses back on the Social Networks I’m on about this page. Also it came up on a Podcast I just did a few weeks ago. I guess it’s sort of sad,funny and relatable all at once. Or maybe it touches on the outsider in all of us.

REFLECT

I remember a scene from a movie who’s name I can’t recall. One of the characters was a quiet guy and he was at a Christmas Party at night and the snow was falling. He went outside and looked in the window at the people at the Christmas Party and just watched them. This scene has always stayed with me and maybe this is in part what influenced the mood of this page. An outsider looking in or inward is probably more the word. Reflection is a good thing. It ends up giving the AWAKENER some insight. I think we all could use some time to step away from the party and reflect.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!

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Weirdly’s World: Reality Doesn’t Work

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 16, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

RealityThe AWAKENER is being exiled into deep space for changing the course of a culture, to much to soon for them. This page was a bit of a struggle for me. I saw the image in my head clearly but couldn’t bring it out onto the page the way I wanted. My imagination was working fine, reality was the issue. My first attempt at it was weak. I was trying to show to much and the image just got to busy.

Jack Kirby and the Helping Hand

RealityI Needed help. I could see my Jack Kirby influence {Jack Kirby is a famous comic book master). coming out in the drawing so I decided to look at some of his comics. An old issue of FANTASTIC FOUR with the THING and MR FANTASTIC working in their science lab did it for me.

What would Jack do? I thought. Bold figure at the forefront, weird and utterly nonsensical machinery as an accent. That was the formula that I needed. I added my own spin on that and there it was. The drawing worked out! I am proud or this page and If he were still alive I wonder what Jack Kirby would have thought of it.

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Weirdlys World: Too Much Like Us?

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 9, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Our next page sees the CYCLOPS SCIENTISTS trying to figure out what to do with the AWAKENER. Really the AWAKENER has done nothing harmful or wrong in itself. Its made buildings and other objects alive which is a big challenge for the cities inhabitants in having to deal with their objects as living beings. A challenge I believe as a society we are going to face maybe not in my life time but soon after I should think.

Seriously Siri

I always sort of wince when I hear people being mean to Siri on their phones. I can’t help to think in this electronic primordial soup that we have made is an intelligence brewing, an artificial intelligence. One that may remember who was naughty and not nice. I know thats paranoid but Siri is talking back even fielding insults. Maybe it’s good practice to be nice to Siri for our future relations with the things that we make that will become much like us.

The CYCLOPS SCIENTISTS made the decision to abandon and contain these new beings. They were afraid of the effects these new creatures would have on their society. To much change to soon for them. In the end we will find out if they made the right decisions. I wonder if it will echo our own choices.

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Weirdlys World: The Accidental Being

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on December 3, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

This page deals with the birth of the AWAKENER in a high tech petri dish of sorts.  Also we have a voice over from one of the Cyclops Scientists expressing dismay over the lack of control they have over their accidental being. Thinking more about this the AWAKENER is more like the unwanted child or the kid who just didn’t turn out right.

Personally I don’t have kids and find it hard to image what I would do if they did turn to the dark side.  I have seen this happen to others though.  One solution was to disown them never to speak or have interactions with their offspring again.  Also I have seen the opposite, hold them close,work with them and hope they turn around.  Did I see either tactic lead to a better person?  Nope.  It has to come from within.  A nurturing environment can do a lot butthe person has to want transformation first.  This is ultimately what this particular ASTRO MONK story is about.

Where does someone find that place where they want change ?

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Weirdlys World: Mobility Ointment

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on November 25, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Dave WeirdlyPictured here are the Cyclop Scientists working on the practical application of their cosmitronically induced mobility ointment. I sort of got this idea of living things in inanimate objects when I found out that limestone is a conduit for ghosts. Once again spirits or beings infused within inanimate objects. Only in this case with cosmitronic induction a being is born within what the Cyclops Scientists made. I kind of reversed the ghosts in rocks idea. The walking chair in the first panel is a very crude prototype for the Cyclops Scientists experiment.

I designed it to be clunky and very awkward after seeing robot prototype videos on youtube. They all seemed
to have ugly wires and bulky machines attached to the robots. I found that interesting so I applied that to the chair they made.

Single Sighted

As the story progesses it may seem like I’m down on science. Im not. I think we should grow and expand what we are. Though I think we need to be wise enough to nurture and guide what we make into a healthy and harmless place. I think a lot of times commerce over takes our wisdom and we become single sighted. Like the Cyclops Scientist.

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